by Katie Fretland Barack Obama today boasted about a bill in "my committee,'' a committee on which he has no seat. While speaking to the press in the Israeli town of Sderot, Obama mistakenly put the U.S. Senate banking committee...

by Mark Silva President Bush is signing some big bills today before Congress leaves town at week's end: This morning, Bush signed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, aimed at easing the home mortgage crisis but also making the federal...

A week after lawmakers shamed its executives as moral "pygmies," Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday reached an out-of-court settlement with the families of two Chinese journalists thrown into jail for dissidence after the company disclosed their identities to local...

WASHINGTON - The line started to form at 6 a.m. outside the hearing room at the Rayburn Office Building, reaffirming the drawing power of Major League Baseball, even in one of its darkest hours.
There were fans and Capitol Hill interns and visiting...

MEET THE CANDIDATES
When Marylanders head to the polls Nov. 6, they will elect members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in addition to casting their ballots for president. Dozens of people are running for a chance to represent the...

Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a relatively obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar, another brick to add to the wall of your vocabulary. This week's word:
DILATORY
This is your first word of the week since the end of December, which should explain the choice.
The word (pronounced DIL-uh-toh-ree) means "slow to act." It is a direct steal from the Latin dilatorius, "delaying," which comes from dilator, "delayer," which in turn derives from the verb differre, "to...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Rep. Mike Honda is a champion of liberal Democrats, Rep. Tom McClintock a rock-ribbed Republican.
Both are faithful to their parties' orthodoxy and represent Northern California districts heavily tilted in their favor. In the past, the two — with 60 years in elected office between them — would have coasted to reelection, the field cleared by their longevity, stature and party blessing.
Not anymore.
The party primary is gone in California, except for presidential...